Just got back home after being away for a year and...

Revvy · Nov 10, 2009

avibayer said:
I just got the book. plan to read it next. how was the flick?

Also, i bet the beer is fine, but trying it, like everyone else is saying, is the only way to know. I want to brew another stout now.

Did you ever get to see the original BBC documentary before they pulled it off youtube over the weekend. They lifted scenes whole heartedly and recreated them with actors, AND wrapped this whole really strange fictional story around the info you'll find in the book. It was OK, but I think, since no matter how one feels about him, Michael Moore has proven that documenteries can be commercial successes, I would have preferred a big screen documentary with Jon Ronson in it, then this comedy.

It was fun, but I really wonder how it will play to someone who is not familiar with the book or the bbc series.

Let me know what you think when you see it.

WenValley · Nov 11, 2009

Well, maybe he's stretched out on the floor with an empty beer glass next to him. Change his handle to "Toe Tag"...

Scut_Monkey · Nov 11, 2009

WenValley said:
Well, maybe he's stretched out on the floor with an empty beer glass next to him. Change his handle to "Toe Tag"...

LOL! Funny stuff.

Germey · Nov 11, 2009

I love the vicarious voyeurism just fine, but I really like all the hopeful optimism just bursting at the seams for a standard stout that has been sitting a room temp for more that a year, on a yeast cake, likely with a dry airlock for a large chunk of it.
No it wont kill him, but beer ages folks. True, its rare for me that a batch lasts more than a month from when I start drinking it, but I have seen several beers go past their prime and go down hill fast. (and that is bottled and refrigerated)
With that amount of time, I would expect an infection to be blatantly visible, and smell-able.
I'd most likely expect the beer to be stale.

'course, after a long stint in the joint, I'd drink a stale beer.

probably while still warm and flat.